emblematically means in an emblematic manner. It carries an Arena rating of 1406, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, emblematically ranks #5,732 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #7,243 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words, #8,230 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #10,986 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words.
Why “emblematically” is a great word
In a manner that serves as a symbolic representation or typical example of something. From the English adjective emblematic (from Greek émblēma, "insertion, inlaid work, emblem") + the adverbial suffix -ally. Unlike "literally," which pins meaning to the exact letter of fact, or "anecdotally," which conveys through the incidental and personal, "emblematically" operates in the realm of distilled essence. It is the broken wineglass at the wedding, the rusted factory gate in the photograph of a collapsed town, or the child’s shoe, mud-caked and abandoned—each object enlisted to speak for what cannot be spoken directly, a way of seeing the whole world in a solitary, charged fragment.
Etymology
From emblematic + -ally.
adv
- In an emblematic manner.
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